Ted Allen

Ted Allen
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Lazy Birds Lazy Birds: Migration made easy.

Gassy Planet Gassy Planet: Whatever you do, don't pull Earth's finger.

He'll Be Back He'll Be Back: For his bacon and toast.

The Apocalypse The Apocalypse: Isn't quite nigh.

Jerry Lewis Telethon Jerry Lewis Telethon: And their enormous celebrity list.

Passport Blues Passport Blues: Wipe that smile off of your face if you're Canadian.




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September 6, 2003


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HOST: Peter Segal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: One of the Fab Five from Bravo's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Ted Allen

This Week's Panelists:

• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section reporter
• Adam Felber, Writer and performer
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe Writer


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Eating crow and freedom fries; if a Democrat needs to tell the world...again...he's running for President, can his campaign be called a success?; a Wait Wait tribute to the actor who will always be remembered for saying "No Dice!"

» Music Cue: "button"
Artist: BJ Lieberman
Composer: BJ Lieberman

Opening Round (Listen)
A poor choice of words from the State Department; Egg not on his face, but nearby; Science validates yet another little human habit; A criminal who more than begged police to come find him.

» Music Cue: "I Will Follow Him"
Artist: Little Peggy March
Composer: Norman Gimbal, JW Stole
CD Title: Stand By Me Soundtrack
Label: Unlisted
Year: 1986




Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"In My Day, We'd Sprint To Work, And Like It" -- three stories about laziness in the news.

» Music Cue: "Lazy Day"
Artist: Spanky and Our Gang
Composer: Powers/Fischoff
CD Title: 60s Rock: Feelin' Groovy
Label: Flashback Records
Year: 1997



Not My Job! (Listen)
Ted Allen, the cuisine expert on Bravo's hit series, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, plays a game called, It's Crazy, But It Just Might Work! Three questions about DARPA, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency.

» Music Cue: "It's Raining Men... The Sequel"
Artist: Martha Wash/Rupaul
Composer: Jabara/Shaffer
CD Title: RuPaul's Go-Go Box Classics
Label: Rhino Records
Year: 1998



Round Two (Listen)
Why grandpa doesn't laugh anymore, and the planet that smelt it, dealt it.


» Music Cue: "Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer"
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Composer: Pitt/Wise
CD Title: Brain In A Box, Sci Fi Collection
Label: Rhino Records
Year: 2000



Round 3

Listener Mailbag (Listen)
Roxanne Roberts said something last week that got some men a bit steamed, and we're sorry we said something was just a little red dot.

» Music Cue: "What Kind Of Fool Am I?"
Artist: Joe Hamill
Composer: Robert Goulet
CD Title: Jackpot: The Las Vegas Story
Label: Rhino Records
Year: 1996



Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The four-million dollar man; the armageddeon that wasn't meant to be; where the B List stars still get the celebrity treatment.

Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank (Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
Now that hurricane season is peaking, what new hurricanes will we hear about?

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